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Coaching Impact Series: African Management Institute

Creative Metier2022-03-26T10:55:14+00:0024th March 2022|

Welcome to the next in our Coaching Impact Series interviews, a podcast series exploring the impact of our coaching work with entrepreneurial support organisations. In this interview, Creative Metier Impact Area Lead Jessica Stewart speaks to Lily Nyawira, Director of Programme Implementation at African Management Institute (AMI) and uncovers the impact of the Argidius funded coaching that Creative Metier delivered throughout the Covid pandemic. Lily shares how the coaching supported to her to build [...]

Coaching Impact Series: Somo

Creative Metier2022-03-24T07:34:48+00:0016th March 2022|

Welcome to the next in our Coaching Impact Series interviews, a podcast series exploring the impact of our coaching work with entrepreneurial support organisations. In this interview, Creative Metier Impact Area Lead Jessica Stewart speaks to Amelia Hopkins Phillips founder and CEO of Somo, and uncovers the impact of the Argidius funded coaching that Creative Metier delivered throughout the Covid pandemic. Amelia shares how the coaching enabled Somo to build team engagement, strengthen the [...]

Coaching Impact Series: Impact Hub

Creative Metier2022-03-10T10:53:22+00:009th March 2022|

Welcome to the next in our Coaching Impact Series interviews, a podcast series exploring the impact of our coaching work with entrepreneurial support organisations. In this interview, Creative Metier Impact Area Lead Jessica Stewart interviews Impact Hub Global Development Director Maria Trindade, uncovering the impact of the Argidius funded coaching that Creative Metier delivered throughout the Covid pandemic. Maria shares how the coaching supported the global team to focus on landing key strategic decisions [...]

Coaching Impact Series: Agora Partnerships

Creative Metier2022-03-02T15:02:00+00:003rd March 2022|

Welcome to the second in our Coaching Impact Series interviews, a podcast series exploring the impact of our coaching work with entrepreneurial support organisations. In this interview, Creative Metier Impact Area Lead Jessica Stewart interviews Agora Partnerships CEO Cecilia Foxworthy to uncover the impact of the Argidius funded coaching that Creative Metier delivered throughout the Covid pandemic. Cecilia shares how the coaching enabled her to step into the CEO role during a particularly challenging [...]

Coaching Impact Series: MicroMentor

Creative Metier2022-03-02T14:42:01+00:0024th February 2022|

Welcome to the first in our Coaching Impact Series interviews, a podcast series exploring the impact of our coaching work with entrepreneurial support organisations. In this interview Creative Metier Impact Area Lead Jessica Stewart interviews MicroMentor Executive Director Anita Ramachandran to uncover the impact of the Argidius funded coaching and coaching skills workshops that Creative Metier delivered throughout the Covid pandemic. Anita shares how the coaching enabled her to align her own role with [...]

Now Closed: Leadership Programme Coordinator Recruitment

Creative Metier2022-02-23T14:39:35+00:0025th January 2022|

We are hiring a Leadership Programme Coordinator to work in our Inspiring Leaders impact area where we work with socially committed leaders to deliver ambitious change in the most challenging contexts. Our coaching and leadership programmes foster resilient, inclusive leaders who fulfil their own potential and inspire others to fulfil theirs. We are looking for a proactive, highly organised Leadership Programme Coordinator with an interest in coaching and leadership development, [...]

Interview Series: Kevin Moorhead

Creative Metier2023-06-27T10:11:24+01:0019th February 2019|

CEO transition support – how getting it right can make the difference At Creative Metier we believe strongly that formalising CEO transition support can reduce the risk to the programme, its funders and ultimately secure the quality and continuity of delivery to beneficiaries. Dedicated support through coaching and working sessions dramatically reduces the time taken for an incoming CEO to get up to speed, and ensures that more complex strategic and environmental considerations and [...]

Interview Series: Zohra Baraka

Creative Metier2021-12-15T19:37:02+00:003rd December 2018|

We are sad to announce that Zohra Baraka passed away on 7 August 2021. Zohra was an inspiring leader who made a difference to thousands of lives across Africa. This interview took place in 2018 and gives a sense of the contribution she made through her work. Meet Zohra Baraka, Founder and Director of Mohazo Eximpo Limited. Mohazo Eximpo sells and distributes handcrafted items in the global marketplace. Zohra wears [...]

Interview Series: Felix Mutisya

Creative Metier2021-12-15T19:25:52+00:0022nd October 2018|

Felix Mutisya, a former night guard, and his wife Susan, a teacher, embarked on an ambitious journey twelve years ago to start a primary school. Together, they have successfully pioneered two schools in Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi where they are educating over 600 students. Felix sat down with us to share his story. What led you to setting up Merry Cliff School? I started the school in 2006 [...]

Interview Series: Saidi Ahmed Ndope

Creative Metier2021-12-15T18:56:12+00:0022nd October 2018|

Saidi Ahmed Ndope can be summarised as a young, ambitious and determined go-getter. At only 35 years of age he has managed to grow his portfolio at Markmann & Co. Ltd by steering the product development and R&D departments to greater heights over the last couple of years. Starting off his career as a Sales & Marketing Executive in 2009 right out of University, he steadily rose up the ranks to hold his current [...]

Interview Series: Deepa Dosaja

Creative Metier2021-12-15T18:49:04+00:0022nd October 2018|

Deepa Dosaja, founder and CEO of Deepa Dosaja Ltd., is one of Kenya’s leading designers and has established a strong brand, not just in Kenya but across the globe. From showcasing her “My Flowers” couture collection on New York Fashion Week’s coveted runway in 2017, to participating in the inaugural Commonwealth Fashion Exchange at the Buckingham Palace in London earlier this year, Deepa is unstoppable. Deepa Dosaja Ltd. is one of ten companies that [...]

Interview Series: Saheel Shah

Creative Metier2021-12-15T18:32:39+00:0022nd October 2018|

Saheel Shah is the co-founder of Kenya’s Adpack Limited, one of the fastest growing packaging businesses in East Africa. Saheel started the business five years ago with his father. Adpack Limited manufactures gunny bags or woven sacks that are used to package cement, agrichemicals, fertilisers and feeds for the farming sector. Saheel sat down with us to talk about what inspires him as a leader and to discuss his entrepreneurial journey. [...]

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